BACKGROUND The piriformis muscle is a flat superficial muscle of the deep gluteal muscles that externally rotates the hip. Ultrasound is widely used to identify the piriformis muscle, especially for g...
Despite recent advancements, artificial muscles have not yet been able to strike the right balance between exceptional mechanical properties and dexterous actuation abilities that are found in biologi...
Decompensated liver disease is associated with alterated haemostasis that can either lead to spontaneous bleeding or development of thrombosis. Alcohol consumption coupled with advanced liver disease ...
Early diagnosis of muscle injuries is indispensable in order to initiate appropriate treatment and to facilitate optimal healing....
The aim of this review is to provide an update on imaging of muscle injuries in sports medicine with a focus on ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to present experimental approaches i...
A PubMed literature search for the years 2012-2022 using the following keywords was performed: muscle, muscle injury, muscle imaging, muscle injury classification, delayed onset muscle soreness, ultra...
Imaging is crucial to confirm and assess the extent of sports-related muscle injuries and may help establishing treatment decisions, which directly affect the prognosis. This is of importance when the...
B‑mode ultrasound represents an easily available, cost-effective modality for the initial diagnosis of muscle injuries. MRI is still considered the reference standard and enables an accurate morpholog...
Oral contraceptives (OCs) manipulate hormonal fluctuations of the menstrual cycle and affect physical performance. Most investigations on the effect of OCs on physical performance did not discriminate...
To examine the effect of MOC use on muscle strength and markers of recovery after exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) in premenopausal women....
Electronic databases Embase, PubMed, SportDiscus, and Web of Science were searched for studies examining the effect of MOCs on acute muscle strength and recovery....
Keywords applied for the study selection were...
Systematic review....
Lowest quality assessed for an included study in this review was serious risk of bias using ROBINS-I tool made from Cochrane for nonrandomized studies....
A total of 104 studies on muscle strength were identified, of which 11 met the inclusion criteria. Concerning recovery, 51 studies were identified, of which 4 met the inclusion criteria....
Of the 11 studies included, 10 showed no effect of MOCs on acute muscle strength. Of the 4 studies on recovery, 2 found a greater decrease in muscle strength, and 3 found higher creatine kinase (CK) l...
These findings suggest that MOCs may impair recovery from EIMD as indicated by lowered muscle strength and elevated CK levels. There is insufficient evidence to conclude whether MOCs acutely affect mu...
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgery (ACDF) is a common technique in treating degenerative cervical spondylosis. This study is to evaluate the changes of cervical muscles after ACDF and ana...
Sixty-five postoperative patients (single-level ACDF) with cervical spondylotic myelopathy from January 2013 to December 2022 were analyzed. The measured parameters include: the axial section of longu...
The postoperative AxCSA of surgical segment (3rd month, 12th month, and the last follow-up) was decreased compared to preoperative (141.62 ± 19.78), and the differences were significant (P < 0.05). Th...
The volume of cervical longus decreased and its morphology changed after ACDF surgery. The mainly affected muscle was the cervical longus closing to the surgical segment. Negative correlation was foun...
Probiotics have shown potential to counteract sarcopenia, although the extent to which they can influence domains of sarcopenia such as muscle mass and strength in humans is unclear. The aim of this s...
This study aimed to investigate the association of muscle fat contents, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and liver fibrosis in patients with severe obesity....
Patients with severe obesity who underwent bariatric surgery were evaluated for NASH and liver fibrosis. Skeletal muscle was assessed by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, and muscle fat contents (skel...
A total of 104 patients with severe obesity were enrolled (57 with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease activity score <5 and 47 with NASH with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease activity score ≥5). SMFI wa...
Muscle fat infiltration rather than muscle mass reflects the severities of hepatic steatosis and fibrosis in patients with severe obesity....
Contrary to the previously known concept of muscle mass decrease following bariatric metabolic surgery, changes in muscle strength have been poorly investigated in systematic reviews. In this meta-ana...
A systematic literature review using the PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases was conducted in November 2022. Longitudinal studies reporting HGS change after bariatric metabolic surgery were...
Three randomized controlled trials and seven prospective cohort studies involving 301 patients were included. Follow-up evaluations were conducted 6 months postoperatively in all trials except for two...
Despite the decreased body composition parameters, including muscle mass, strength was not impaired after bariatric metabolic surgery; this indicates that bariatric metabolic surgery is an effective w...
Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) has been introduced as a standard treatment for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) following novel agent-based induction chemotherapy. Th...
A multi-center registry database was retrospectively analyzed. Between 2009 and 2020, 190 patients with chest computed tomography images underwent frontline ASCT following induction therapy. The PMI w...
Of the 190 patients, 38 (20%) were in the low muscle mass group. The low muscle mass group had a lower 4-year overall survival (OS) rate than the non-low muscle mass group (68.5% vs. 81.2%;...
Paraspinal muscle mass may have a prognostic role in NDMM patients who undergo ASCT. Patients with low paraspinal muscle mass have lower survival outcomes compared to non-low muscle mass group....
